The Argument Against Head Phones Summary

In modern day society , students are on instagram instead of taking notes in class, office workers shop on ebay at work and parents take their iphones to the beach instead of the books they used to to read. Maggies Jackson , a writer for Boston Globe states electronics are less of annoyances , yet becoming more of a distraction leading to a new dark age. Jackson uses personal stories and tells of her extensive research in the article to make her readers believe in her credibility. These three rhetorical appeals combining with her alarmed tone creates an effective argument on electric distranticon.

Incorporating logical appeals into her writing allows Heffernan to reach a larger audience by providing factual support as backing for the argument. The author writes, “the number of teenagers with hearing loss… has jumped 33 percent since 1994” (Heffernan, 2011). By using a statistic as a logical premise in support of prohibiting headphones, the author sheds light on the harsh reality of headphone use: more young people experience hearing loss. When discussing the history of headphones, the author states, “workers and soldiers have long used [headphones] to mute out the din of machinery or artillery while receiving one-way orders from someone with a microphone” (Heffernan, 2011). Heffernan recognizes a factual use of headphones while at the same time acknowledging that headphones are useful in some instances, which helps to strengthen her argument. Heffernan then goes on to say, “headphone users who listen to

The headphones have become common in the everyday life of everyone in a long time, and it also brings lots of arguments. In an article in The New York Times Magazine published on January 7, 2011, titled "Against Headset" by Virginia Heffernan, Heffernan is an author of New York Times, an American journalist and also, a founder of the Screens blog, which eventually became the Medium blog, said that people should resist headphones. In addition, I chose this article to analyze because I liked the way the author use her rhetorical techniques in order to convince parents of teenagers to restrict the use of their child’s headphones and how well does she use ethos to build some trusts and credibility to her audiences, how well does she provides statistic facts and reasons to convince her audience, and how well does she uses pathos to create emotion to sustain argument as well as building bridge between her audiences and she.

Headphones have been in use for over a century, yet they have only recently become a topic of debate. Headphones are a way for people to listen to music, audiobooks, or whatever they like privately without disrupting others around them. However, all of this private listening may soon be falling on deaf ears. In Virginia Heffernan’s article “Against Headphones”, she presents a valid argument stating that although headphones are useful in some professions, they are causing substantial hearing loss, especially in young people. The formulated argument effectively incorporates ethos, logos, and opposing viewpoints with rebuttals, but could be strengthened in some areas to increase effectiveness.

This mindset has sparked incredible backlash from the Deaf community. The Deaf community has fought through years of discrimination and oppression to be viewed as equal human beings, therefore the introduction of these implants further emphasised that deafness is something abnormal and that it should be fixed. An article from NPR reminds us that historically parents had to “send their son or daughter away to a boarding school for the deaf” (NPR par. 1), which is why the Deaf community is fighting so hard for their elevated status to be protected.The National Association of the Deaf suggests that the idea that deafness needs to be fixed is due to the fact that “There is little or no portrayal of successful, well adjusted deaf and hard of hearing children and adults without implants” (National Association of the Deaf par. 8). It is easy to understand why parents would choose to implant their children when there is little shown about successful unimplanted Deaf people. They fear that their child may suffer academically from not being able to fully comprehend class lessons or not be able to get their dream job, or any higher paying job, due to not being able to hear. Also, they fear for their safety. They worry about their child not hearing a car coming or an emergency alarm. Cochlear implants give deaf people the opportunity to abandon their deafness and the

The main points in chapter 3 section 3.1 and 3.2 was how rhetorical strategies make messages persuasive. Messages persuade through their angle of vision. The angle of vision causes a reader to see a subject from one perspective only-the writer's. Writers create an angle of vision through strategies such as the following: stating point of view directly, selecting some details while omitting others, choosing words or figures of speech with intended connotations, and creating emphasis or de-emphasis through sentence structure and organization. The angle of vision or the lens is persuasive because it controls what the reader sees. Unless readers are rhetorically savy, they can lose awareness that they are seeing the writer's subject matter through a lens that both reveals and conceals. Writer's use angle of vision to look at the subject from a certain location, or to use another metaphor, the writer wears a lens that colors or filters the topic in a certain way. The angle of vision, lens, or filter determines what part of a topic gets seen and what remains unseen, what gets included or excluded, and what gets emphasized or de-emphasized.

Another detriment to the article’s attempt to be persuasive is the mood of indifference. The tone and diction create a mood that makes the readers uninterested in the topic and bored by the irrelevant information. From the author’s influence on various parts of the conventions, the article becomes largely informative, creating an undesired mood in an audience expecting the claim to be constructed and supported. This, in turn, leaves the claim unsupported and the article

Before the panel discussion, I never took the time to think about how much time and consideration a parent must go through when deciding whether or not they should implant their child with cochlear implants. After watching Sound and Fury, I learned the importance of the Deaf community and their culture and that cochlear implants are not always seen as a good thing. Hearing from the perspective of our guests, and seeing this decision from the eyes of audiologists/teachers of the Deaf, I see that cochlear implantation is anything but an easy decision.

Headphones are very popular in our every day lives, but it can bring arguments amongst many people. Virginia Heffernan published an article considering the use of headphones called “Against Headphones” on January 9, 2011 in the 9th edition of The New York Times magazine. In this article Heffernans ambition is to try to persuade her readers that teenagers and adults should use headphones less. Heffernan is not only try to convince them to use headphones less, she is trying to overcome the type of headphones being used, and how they are using them. Heffernan uses many strong, and convincing claims to support her argument in this article.

Against Headphones This article The Argument Against Headphones by Virginia Heffernan was published at New York Times magazine in 2011, on the blog called medium. The article makes accentuation the writer perspective of why earphones are terrible for our listening ability wellbeing. Bringing up a couple main sources of this issue, for example, higher volume levels for a drawn out stretch of time incites the harming of the ear, inciting early side effects of hard of hearing. Additionally it specifies that youngsters are having hearings issues incited by the earphone.

Technology has advanced over the years, causing our lifestyle to change drastically and head down a new path. With these advances in technology, the cell phone appeared and has evolved throughout time. The cell phone has become a necessity to many. All ages use this mobile device for either personal or business use. Higgins states that the amount of cell phones active has increased from “one billion in 2000 to 6 billion.” Although cell phones play an important role in the lives of many, the negative possibilities could cause destruction to our society.

Thesis: The usage of cell phones in modern day society has caused quite the problem for citizens in this generation by being a major distraction, causing addictions, and has sadly became the main resource of communication.

Headphones are a necessity for many people in today’s society. Headphones allow a person to listen to music without disturbing others; therefore people are listening to music all day while they eat, sleep, or work. In Derek Thompson’s essay, “How Headphones Changed the World”, Thompson addresses the problem of why workers use headphones even if studies have shown that it interferes with their productivity levels. Thompson effectively uses precise language and organizes his essay in a way that shows a breakdown of his thoughts on this topic. These two elements make the essay easy to understand, which enhances the audience’s reading experience.

A cell phone is an electronic device used for the mobile telecommunication i.e. mobile telephony, data transmission and text messaging. It is used over a cellular network of specialized base stations. It differs from cordless telephones, which offers telephony service only within a limited range i.e. within a home or an office. As the time passes it offers more and more advance features. A society is a social, economical or industrial infrastructure, made up of collection of individuals. Although the members of the society may be from different ethnic group or from a particular ethnic group yet they live together for their mutual benefit. From the mutual relationship between the members of the society, the effect of anything on individual

The effects of technology on society will always be a double edged sword. The debate is a never ending one, in which both sides have valid and compelling arguments. The Industrial Revolution reduced manual labor in the long run, but had negative consequences such as child labor and sweatshop conditions. Nuclear Power reduces the cost of producing energy, but raises serious environmental issues like pollution and radiation. In this day in age refusing to assimilate to at least some form of modern living is simply not an option. One invention causing controversy today that has yet to cease being alter, modified, and “improved” since its debut is the ever present cell phone.